The Incredible Shrinking Campus Male

Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, in a file photo. The UCLA undergraduate population is made up of 59 percent women and 41 percent men. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Commentary

A few months before his death, Walter Williams, the foremost columnist and professor at George Mason University, wrote, “The true tragedy is that so many Americans are blind to the fact that today’s colleges and universities pose a threat on several fronts to the well-being of our nation.”